Mr. Speaker, a couple of times today people have cited the Prime Minister. I would like to read what the Prime Minister said in a speech within the past week. "The Canadian economy has managed to create more than 600,000 jobs since the time we were elected". This is very significant.
The Minister of Human Resources Development talked about the problems of the global economy and the problems that other countries have creating jobs.
The Prime Minister went on to say: "Believe it or not, Canada, not the government, but mainly the private sector has created more jobs in Canada than in Germany and France together". That is an indication of what this government has done. Those countries have four times our population and we are creating far more jobs than they are.